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n w. BAUER. DOCUMENT FILE. APPIJIOATIOH FILED MAB-.12. 1910.

Patented Juiy 4, 1911;

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FIG 1 INVENTOR v ATTOR EY WITNESSES .describetl, illustrated in the NIE SKATES EDWARD W. BAUER, 0F JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TION COMPANY, OF JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK. A CORPO DOCUMENT-FILE.

' more especially the follower thereof, so as to lessen its cost of manufacture and simplify its construction, at the same time making the follower lighter, stitfer and stronger, and make it more easily handled to compress and release the papers of the file.

\Vith this and other objects in view, the invention consists of the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully aceompaurine drawing and pointed out in end of this specification. t

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents a rear elevation of the follower or\ compressor. Q is a side elevation of the compressor only. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3 3* in Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a section on the line l -a in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5*, 5 inl ig. .1. Fig. (i is a perspective view of the document lile showing the compressor and its clamp in position, the papers compressed thereby being omitted.

Like re fereuce numerals refer to like parts in the several figures.

Reference numeral 1 indicates a document; lile made in this instance preferably of sheet metal, having in the bottom thereof a guide 2 running the full length thereof. ment. tile is provided with ttifOlltHYLl' 3. This follower is made o'fa single piece of sheet, metal bent to the form shown in cross section in Fig. -l. It has two channels l, l running the full height of the follower. Each of these channels is slotted at 5, 5, said slots being formed in one side only of each of said channels, namely the side facing, the compressor. The follower is provided with a compressor (5, which compressor has a foot; 7 with lugs thereon capable of engaging with the guide 2 in the bottom of the tile. It. also has a shoulder with lugs 8 thereon capable of engaging the bottom of the file above the slot. The flanges forming the top of the guide are engaged below by the lugs 7, 7

claims at the The d'oeu- Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March 12, 1910.

Serial No. 548,998.

and above by the lugs pressor stands m thereby prevent the com tilted backward atthe top but a vertical arena orrro.

TO ART METAL CONSTRUC- RATION OF NEW YORK.

Patented July at, 19.11.

8, 8 when the composition, and will pressor 6 from being will not prevent its being tilted forward at the top.

The compressor also handle 5) by which it in forward and back.

At the top the eompr a cross bar 10 which is has formed thereon the ay be readily moved essor is formed with long enough to enter into the slots 5, 5 in the channels 4, 4 of the follower with which ngage nent. t and b, handle 9 and ably "formed in a single maintains a sliding The compressor 6 with its lugs cross bar 10 is preferably formed as a eastrn eand is also preferpiece.

Theslots in the follower permit of a hunted movement of the follower and compressor relative to one compressor in the position,

lVith the h other.

shown in Fig.

(3, the com pressor in engagement with'the guide), and the follower right, the position it naturally would take when all the space between it and the front,

of the file was filled wit this position the cross bar 10 is at the top of the slots 11 folded papers. In substantially 5, 5 in the follower.

This permits the follower to have a limited ecompressor. \Vhen' vertical movement on th papers are put in the which arepressed .u p againstthes sure of these papers will in turn press the atthe top, thus grippi the bottom or guide.

file. more or less of usually folded, the-follower is e papers. The presagainst the follower ompressor backward up; and looking it on The follower and its compressor will then be practically immovable at the bottomwhich only The papers have a at the top as well,

tends to make it bind more firmly at the bottom, thus holding all the papers in the file tight and secure.

If, however, the

follower is pressed in at the top sutlieicntly,

it will no longer bind the expansion of the at the bottom and papers pressing against the bottom will tend to make the follower move back at the bottom and release the papers confined thereby. If the document tile is grasped by its ha and the follower mile 11 by one hand 3 is pressed forward at the top with the other hand, the compressor will be released at once lower to move back at permitting the folthe bottom, giving ready access to the papers in the tile, or when the file is held by one hand by the handle 11, if the top of the follower 3 is pressed against a desk or chair, etc., the compressor will be released at once, making the papers accessible.

The com nessor may be assembled with the follower as follows: One of the channels may be bent up completely, leaving the other channel bent to the form shown by dotted lines in Fig. The compressor may then be placed on the follower with its cross bar 10 inserted in the slots 5, 5. The part shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5 is then bent forward, which locks the cross bar in position,'after which the follower may have its free end bent at right angles to. line up with the contact surface of the follower.

It will be obvious that slight modifies. cations may be, made in the construction of my follower and the process of the assembling of it,'without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and patentahle is as follows:

1. A follower for a document file composed of a single piece of sheet metal, ehan-.

nels bent in said follower for the purpose of stiffening the follower, slots cut in said channels, a compressor with cross bar engaging said slots.

. A follower for a document file com-.

posed of a. singlepiece of sheet metal, channels bent in said follower for the purpose of stiffening the follower, slots cut in said channels, a compressor with cross bar engaging said slots, said slots being positioned opposite to and facing each other.

3. A follower for adocument file composed of a sin le piece of sheet metal, channels bent in said follower for the purpose of stiffening the follower, slots cut in said channels, said slots being positioned opposite to and facing each other, a compressor with cross bar engaging said slots, said follower and its compressor having alimited movement relative to each other.

4. A follower for a doeumentfile composed of a single sheet of metal having two channels bent therein extending the full length thereof, a compressor with a cross bar thereon, said' cross bar engaging said channels.

5. A follower for a document file com-' posed of a single sheet of netal having two channels bent tliereimslotsreut in said channels, a cross bar engagin said slots.

6. A follower for a document file-composed of a single sheet of-metal having two channels bent therein, slots cut in said ehannels, said slots, facing each other, a crossbarengaging said slots.

7; A follower for a document file composed of a single sheet of metal. having two parallel channels bent therein, compressor foot slots cut inthe inner walls of said ehan- 5 nels, said slotsfacing each other.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD W. BAUER. Witnesses:

LINCOLN M. STRAUSS, Jos. A'. Gannnnn, l 

